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1 Introductory Report to the System of Penal Law Prepared for the State of Louisiana 1820

handle is hein.beal/intrpsyla0001 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTORY REPORT TO THE SYSTEM OF PENAL LAW PREPARED FOR THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. I LAY before the General Assembly, with unaffected diffidence, the System which they directed me to prepare. This feeling, however, does not arise from any apprehension that the work has not been framed according to the spirit of the instructions that were given for its execution; they have been constantly before me. Nor have I entertained any doubt of the correctness of the principles on which those instructions were founded; on the contrary, every new view that unfolded itself, as I gave them the form of practical precept, convinced me of their wisdom and utility. But in strictly following good rules according to the best of my judgment, that judgment must frequently have erred. To apply general principles to the numerous subdivisions of criminal jurisprudence, so that the same spirit might pervade its different branches of Sanction, Procedure, Evidence, and Discipline, presented a task which nothing but the highest presumption could hope to perform, without falling into many errors. Of my own fallibility no one can be more sensible than I am, and no one could have taken greater precautions to correct it. Not a provision has been made, without the deepest reflection upon its consequences. Not a line has been written, that was not sent to every quarter of the Union, in search of amendment. Not a sug- gestion has been offered, that has not been adopted without pride of opinion, when it brought conviction to my mind; and the long list of corrections, atothe end of the printed copies, attest how slight my attachment has been to preconceived ideas, or to the language in which they were expressed, when either my own reflection, or the advice of others, convinced me that they might be amended. The Codes, as they are now presented, have been produced by the exer- cise of my best faculties, faithfully and laboriously employed, under I

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